Blackburn 1910 (and Me, '91 vintage)
From a plan. Motor - 540 size
Gear - 2.3:1 Olympus Belt Drive
Prop - 11x7
Cells - 7 cell 1200s
Elev - Rud - Mot
Made a
very realistic sound just cruising round, flew quite
slowly and would take-off, land almost vertical in a
breeze.
Status - Sold, (fool), had great 2 years of flying.
C160
Transal Span - 81 inch
Motors - Kyosho LeMan 600s
Gear - 2.3:1 Olympus Belt Drive
Prop - 11 x 7 Punctilio
Cells - 14 (2 x 7 cell packs, Sanyo 1400s)
Elev - Ail - Rud - Mot - Cargo Drop
Weight - approx. 7.25lb flying.
This shows the breakdown for transport, one nylon screw for the tail and two cocktail sticks for the fuz halves, (yes, cocktail sticks).
She had rear opening cargo doors and could drop a chuted payload, (in fact there is a paratrooper still clinging to the top of a tree next to my flying field, 5 years now, still afraid to come down).
- Status - Sold, and regretted.
F4u Corsair
Now this looked very good in the air except for occasionally it would decide to 'wag' its tail, fishtail?. Whether it was because of the fin being slightly forward, of the trailing rx aerial hanging out the back I don't know.
The 7 cell pack was in a removable section of the lower fuz under the wing, the u/c was fixed.
40" span, 600E motor, Olympus belt drive, 11x6.
Ended its life after a servo failure.
Sort of Avro Avian
Gave me many happy days of flying, probably 12 years ago. That covering is black Solartex, well I had some laying around.
I put this ones demise down to interference, or radio failure, or sun spots, or a full moon. Can't think what else it could have been. ;-)
600 motor and Olympus belt drive and 7 cells.
Lightweight Twin Boom
I never was any good a dreaming up fancy names, thats why I also had a 'Blue Job', 'Black Job', 'White Wing'. Well it was obvious, why call a plane Fred and then refer to it as 'she'.
Any way Twin Boom was my first ultra-ultralight. At launch it climbed away like a rocket, nearly vertical, then just like a rocket, it exploded. Over stressed?.
Under designed?, yes.
Monocoupe
90, 400 motor, 2.3:1 belt drive, 7 cell.
Flew Ok on a calm day, but didn't like landing on
grass.That undercarriage stops befor the rest of the
plane, so it noses over and breaks the fin, again and
again. So its now held in reserve.
From a free plan in a magazine.